Yep. This whole discussion just seems like a C vs C++ styleguide slapfight. Having the functions that operate on the struct attached directly to the struct de

Yep. This whole discussion just seems like a C vs C++ styleguide slapfight. Having the functions that operate on the struct attached directly to the struct declaration, vs having some functions that the first parameter is the struct on which the function operates, doesn't seem like a particularly meaningful distinction to me. OK, you like C-style programming in favor of C++-style programming, congrats. It's still a class either way.